V. I.

Lenin

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To:   L. B. KAMENEV

Dear L. B., Can you get Neue Zeit , the latest issues, with the Pannekoek
and Kautsky articles? If not, write, and we’ll send them over. It is
necessary to read them before going to Chemnitz and there to look up
Pannekoek and make closer contact with him: Kautsky replied to him on some
cardinal issues in an extremely opportunist way. It is very
desirable to make closer contact with the Left (especially Pannekoek, who
now lends a hand in the cheap “game” played by Tyszka) and to carry on
agitation among them for a principled rebuff to Kautsky. It’ll be
disgraceful if they do not revolt against such opportunism!
Unfortunately they are short of people:
Radek is practically a luminary among them.... [1]

You ought to write popular articles (in the tone of
Rabochaya Gazeta ), literary criticism, for Pravda . If you
write in the Rabochaya Gazeta tone ... they’ll print them. Otherwise ... a bad job! Dnevnitsky has left and we are now without a
literary criticism section in Zvezda!! and Pravda also needs one.

Have you got
Zavety ? [5] Can you send me Ropshin for a time? I should like
to write about him for the C.O.

Are you writing for Prosveshcheniye ? Make haste!

( I read in a German paper that there is a housing shortage in Chemnitz and that one has to apply in advance to the
Wohnungsausschuβ [2]

—(Faites attention! [3]

).)

All the best, Yours, Lenin

P.S. And so, after Chemnitz, you must come to us. C’est
entendu, [4] unless ... circumstances compel us to invite you here before Chemnitz. Let us know in advance whether you are going to
Switzerland, when, where, and for how long.

P.P.S. I am sending Gorky’s letter, part of which is of general
interest. Return it .